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Just an appreciation post, not a question. I have reached out to graphviz as my tool of choice for diagramming for my entire career. Sometimes years go by without me using it, but …

Thanks!

I don't see any information about the source code... No mention of Open source on the website.

I've worked with developers who use this pattern frequently for code execution. try{ .. business logic .. } catch (NullPointerException e) { .. else .. } Rather than a null guard. …

Makes me think about the stratification issues I have on my phone these days - some conversations in What'sApp, Telegram, Signal, Riot.im not to mention text messages, email etc. B…

I live in Brooklyn. In lower Manhattan they might be unnoticed, but that is not New York. Queens, is not Manhattan. You're talking about a major gentrification event. Can't handle …

I just don't understand why this conversation seems to be dominated by financial discussion. The main problem that many NYs had with the Amazon deal was dilution of our culture. Du…

Support at this scale is a hard game. I know some of the guys who work over there, and they make a valiant effort. Training is exceptionally hard. Databases are hard to manage, and…

I really don't get this as an indictment of MongoDB, or their OpsManager product really. They used the version of OpsManager that doesn't manage the deployment - is specifically no…

YouTube works fine in Firefox. I use it all the time. It works well in mobile firefox as well.

TLDR: all standard applications for working with files are unaware of resource forks. This is confusing, and hurts new computer users. #consideredharmful

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Find a better job.

There are plenty of places people do this already. For example, this is common behaviour in Manhattan.

It's analogies all the way down.

This is the answer I was looking for. Funny, I've been a long time linux user, and never knew about these internal names. It does seem like a slight against our Ubuntu, Debain, Mac…

I don't understand the joke in calling it that. It just seems petty. Is there something I'm missing?

I have trouble believeing that you can back any of this up. It seems extremely unlikely to me that the number of people who want to "prove that women can run companies" outnumbers …

I believe that the Servo project ( https://github.com/servo/servo ) is attempting to address exactly this.

This article annoyingly misses to mention THE reason to use Firefox over Chrome. Supporting Mozilla.

Can you clarify this? Generally, if you've published a package, it's possible someone has downloaded it. If you take it down, that's going to be strange and unexpected behaviour fo…

> Furthermore, I don't think we're going to get very far in space manufacturing without a high energy density power source (e.g. fusion). Care to elaborate on this point?

People should consider checking out Wand as well. Really nice wrapper around ImageMagick. Very good pythonic interface.

This is ridiculous. One uninnovative developer getting excited about fewer choices and lower quality in iOS application.